Engels | 15-10-2017 | 256 pagina's
9781780238197
Hardback
€ 25,50
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What could be better than diving into cool water on a hot day? In this enormously enjoyable and informative history of swimming, Eric Chaline sums up this most summery of moments with one phrase: pleasure beckons at the water's edge.
Strokes of Genius traces the history of swimming from the first civilizations to its current worldwide popularity as a sport, fitness pastime, and leisure activity. Chaline explores swimming's role in ritual, early trade and manufacturing, warfare, and medicine, before describing its transformation in the early modern period into a leisure activity and a competitive sport--the necessary precursors that have made it the most common physical pastime in the developed world.
Eric Chaline has combined writing and academic work with sports and exercise, both as a practitioner and coach. He has written books on a range of subjects, including history, travel, and health and fitness and is the author of The Temple of Perfection: A History of the Gym, also published by Reaktion Books.
EAN : | 9781780238197 |
Uitgever : | Reaktion Books |
Publicatie datum : | 15-10-2017 |
Uitvoering : | Hardback |
Taal : | Engels |
Hoogte : | 223 mm |
Breedte : | 141 mm |
Dikte : | 30 mm |
Gewicht : | 766 gr |
Status : | Te bestellen bij leverancier |
Aantal pagina's : | 256 |